[ecrea] CfP - Archives of the Digital (deadline: 31 July 2016)

Call for Papers
Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, Issue 8.1: Archives 
of the Digital

Guest Editors: Hermann Rotermund, Wolfgang Hagen and Christian Herzog 
(Leuphana University Lüneburg)

Reminder of the deadline for the submission of full papers: 31 July 2016
The issue is scheduled for publication in Spring 2017.

Digital media has initiated the transformation of archiving practices 
with implications for audio-visual archives, written archives and 
libraries. The substitution of finding aids, including paper cards, by 
databases is in most instances seen as beneficial and an advance. 
However, the digitization of archival holdings poses a lot of questions 
that have not yet been thoroughly discussed. The physical nature of the 
sources is no longer an obstacle to their universal accessibility. Is 
digitization thus leading to the disappearance of the emphatic notion of 
the archive, because digitized materials are becoming mere elements of 
the constantly growing and flowing mass of data in electronic circuits? 
Will digital techniques replace the archive as an institution? Do we 
have to envision archives without records and without a documentation 
strategy – and documentarists as hackers who build ad hoc collections 
from randomly commented links?

With regard to broadcast archives, it can be observed that the form and 
comprehensibility of metadata, access and usage regulations have not 
kept pace with digitization. How can this asynchrony be dissolved? How 
can the means of digital technology and the Internet be used to create 
comprehensible and accessible metadata? How can archives be connected – 
are there historical examples we could learn from?

Articles for this special issue, ‘Archives of the Digital’ could, for 
example, address ideas and visions for the reconfiguration of archives, 
or the epistemology of the archive (and its notions), treat exemplary 
case studies of (interdisciplinary) practices for the interpretation of 
archival content, or elaborate on the impact of digitization for 
scholars working in the archives/with archival holdings.


Submission guidelines

Submissions of 6000–8000 words in length are to be original, scholarly 
manuscripts formatted according to Intellect House Style 
guidelines(http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/Intellect%20style%20guide.pdf)

Notes should appear as endnotes and cited works listed in alphabetical, 
then chronological, order in a separate ‘References’ section at the end 
of the article. Submissions should be in Microsoft Word .doc/.docx 
format ONLY and sent as e-mail attachments to the guest editors, at 
(hermann.rotermund /at/ leuphana.de)
All inquiries should also be addressed to Hermann Rotermund.


About the journal
Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, a journal published by 
Intellect, recognises the interdisciplinary nature of the fields of 
media, communication and cultural studies. We therefore encourage 
diverse themes, subjects, contexts and approaches: empirical, 
theoretical and historical. Our objective is to engage readers and 
contributors from different parts of the world in a critical debate on 
the myriad of interconnections and interactions between communication, 
culture and society.

Interactions is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that aims to 
encourage the development of the widest possible scholarly community, 
both in terms of geographical location and intellectual scope in the 
fields of media, communication and cultural studies. We publish leading 
articles from both established scholars and those at the beginning of 
their academic careers.


For further information about the journal, please visit 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=165/

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